Good work escalator kid-catch fella!

The picture quality isn’t great but here’s some alarming footage from a Turkish shopping mall. At about one minute in, the Some daft-arse kid who has been mucking about gets stuck on the escalator’s hand rail and before he knows it, he’s whizzing his way up to the top of the thing.

Luckily, a shopkeeper gets wind of what is happening and rushes out to catch the errant urchin as he falls to his near-certain death. Give the man a balloon AND a badge for his efforts.

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Nobby

Whoever uploaded that needs to learn how to edit video. Boring start, followed by a moving white thing that then drops. OK, not much they can do about the quality, but do people really want to watch a oving escaltor for a minute before anything happens?

This exact thing happened in the "West 12" shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush about two months ago. That time a security guard caught the kid. Absolute hero. Having said that, maybe more escalators should have the plastic guards on them now? I've seen a few in my time and it'd definitely prevent this kind of thing.